Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-09-05
IN SUNNY FRANCE.
Something About Partisan Nuns, Ginger.
bread and Other Things.
Especial Correspondence

bread and Other Things.
Especial Correspondence
PARIS, Aug 12
Am living near convent. French nuns
about. Not SO much like other nuns havo
seen. Have been accustomed to gloomier
nuns. French nun uses up more of corner of
her eye to look at you Gf a mani than some
other nuns. Handsome ankles Gray yarn
stockings. Low slippers. Economical coun-
try in point of wrapping paper. No clean
paper bags in grocery like ours Old news
papers used to wrap your sugar, ETC., in.
French printing ink very strong of tar, tur-
pentine and other sickness. Your butter
and cheese wrapped in bits of old ledgers. No
tramps. Beggars authorized somehow by
law. Carry bundle of checks or coloreu
slips of paper Give one penny, and he or
she gives you a check. For services rem
dered somehow. Very common and very
cheap coffee. When sold poured out of
a black bottle. As black as the bottle.
Tastes like shoe backing warmed over Only
a counterfeit of coffee. Gingerbread abnn-
dant. No ginger in it. Exclusive lotteries
and fairs for selling gingerbread Made in
chunks two feet long and three inches thick.
Ditto in molds of gingerbread kings and
queens two fleet long Bend like India rub
Der. Tastes like ditto. Is carried all over
France from fair to fair Piled by the cora
;, the sun. Exposed to various wea.ners.
Stale if not moldy Sometimes stuffed with
boiled chestnuts Which makes it worse.
Kept at grocery stores. Set out in front
along with tubs, pals and brooms. Dogs
III, -
age Of sickness. Cats run over II. Mice
nibble it, Dust works through it. Should
see the old feather broom the shopman
sweeps it with every morning. Ginger
bread king held by the foot very pi-
able. Will bend nearly double. Saw one SO
carried by lady in street car Gingerbread
auctions and lotteries Lottery man attracts
crowd by batting hook alt, hne with hunk OF
gingerbread. Sweeps it over crowd of small
boys who must catch it in their mouths. Marks
each piece with chalk to correspond with lot
terry ticket dealt out. When won. hands il
to winner, first rubbing off chalk Oh flank OF
aged pair of pantaoons.
Visited principal Paris sewer. On exhibi
ton twice month. Free. Applications for
tickets made to the project Runs for over
mile under the Rue Rivoli. Wide as a canal.
vice as ulfby. Trip ulaie Tor Three quarters
of mile on hand car. Cane seat bottoms.
Carriage lamps in front Propelled by man
power. Sewer rail transit begins at Place dr
Chatelet. Hole in the pavement. Circular
iron stairway. Underground rail passage to
Place de la Concorde. From Concor.le to
the Madeline by gondola. Three gondolas.
Many lady visitors OH board. Quite the
thing to do when in Paris. But sewer
is sewer i'll France or out. Moth
ing more nor less. A sail OH
river of stinks. Small stinky tributaries
pouring in Oh every side From smaller
streets. Cascades and rapids of-rot. Deep
slum current in main sewer. Majestic. Ma
jestic smell No bottom. Man Oh board
sounded with cane. Touched nothing. Cane
an object of adherence afterward to all on
board. Man tabooed. Gondolas carry twenty
each. Pushed by poles from Poland. Sewer
lit with lamps. Has sidewalks Fluid looks
like moiasses. Lots of corks in it. Queer.
Men on board smoked off smell with cigars.
La'lies applied cologne to nasal orifce.
Plenty for ones nose to do here. Came I'D
and into daylight again opposite Church OF
Madeline Satisfied. A sewer is sewer
even if gilt edged. PM